Riccarton’s third highest dividend

Press, 19 February 1983, Page 17

Riccarton’s third highest dividend

When Legalize won the Alex Grigor Menswear Handicap at Riccarton on Thursday and returned 5332.05 and $43.60 for a win-and-place. he went into the records as only the third biggest dividend payer on the course in the last 32 years. The biggest dividend, unitwise. was Grand Boy’s £3B2' 5/6 and £77/9/6 for a win-and-place when, as the eighteenth favourite of 22. he won the Yaldhurst Handicap at

the Canterbury Jockey Club's autumn meeting on April 14. 1952. Meandering caused another upset on the course when he won the Sumner Handicap in the colours of the late “Matey" Williams on the second day of the Grand National meeting in 1963. The Callander gelding, then nine years of age, returned his supporters £371/6 6 for a win and £7O/1/0 for a place. He was the rank outsider in

a field of 22. It was not really surprising that Legalize was the 1715 favourite of 17 on Thursday. His only previous win had been on the course last March and in the meantime, including a recent unrewarding campaign on the West Coast, he had contributed nothing to his record. One patron who supported Legalize and the runner-up, Aldoba, in the forecast on Thursday received a $396.45

dividend, but he must have “kicked" himself for not contemplating taking the combination in the quinella. There were no quinella tickets exchanged on Aldoba, but some lucky patron had coupled up the winner with the third plaeegetter. Regal Red, which, as the 11-I’2 favourite, paid $13.40 for a place. The quinella dividend paid on Legalize and Regal Red was $3494.05.